Gigya Reviews

There is absolutely no career growth at Gigya. The BDR role is a great position to gain some sales experience for a recent college graduate, but do not think you are coming to Gigya for career advancement. Management will try to sell you on the fact that they were promoted quickly, but that was during a time when Gigya would promote anyone with a pulse. I was at Gigya for nearly a year, and only saw 1 promotion out of the BDR organization. Lack of Stability. Every couple months, there is some new focus or new direction the company is moving, and BDRs suffer from these ripple effects. It is impossible for a sales person to measure success and growth, when your measurement of success means something differently every couple months. I think this is due to a lack of leadership in the company. During my year, 2 C-levels, 3 VPs, 3 Directors, and countless managers and non-managers had left the company. Sales usually has high turnover, but I have never heard of a company that has as much turnover throughout the whole organization as Gigya does. BDRs are treated like second class citizens. This is most noticed during events when Gigya has all their remote employees in town. Gigya will plan dinners, events, lunches, etc. for everybody in the company to attend, except BDRs. They are the only ones required to be at their desks, making calls, while the rest of the company is catching up with employees from other offices, attending a lunch, and really doing whatever they want. Someone at Gigya summarized it best, "being a BDR at Gigya is like working on the Titanic. You're down in the bottom of the ship, shoveling coal, while everybody else is at a ballroom party, right above you."

- Passionate and inspiring CEO that leaves employees feeling manipulated at the realization that on a personal level, the feeling was never mutual. - Senior employees (maybe all) are treated as disposable and under appreciated. - The new and remaining executives are just cogs in the machine and don't bring the energy, enthusiasm and dedication to winning that only founders can incite. - The new wave of executives - Passionate and inspiring CEO that leaves employees feeling manipulated when there was ultimately little concern about employees on a personal level - Senior employees (maybe all) are treated as disposable and under appreciated. - Disconnect between product development/R&D and the market. - Company has always played catchup and feature wars with other companies rather than innovating and leading the market. Even the best me-too features doesn't guarantee success. - CEO and executive team have always leaned toward educating the market rather than serving it. - Due to lacking market perception and response, ROI has always been hard to find. - Despite hiring some of the best and brightest, god forbid you have any ideas of your own. If you don't march to the flavor-of-the-week strategy which has proven to often be wrong, you will be replaced - In the march towards an acquisition, I saw very capable colleagues replaced by new executives with IPO affiliations/branding on their resumes (read not experience). - Massive salesforce (now downsized) tripping over each other with the most capable of the team leaving en masse or exchanged for re-sellers.